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This is the issue that has me really pissed off. The huge Hillary supporters on these boards have not addressed this issue.
It's my understanding that all the Democratic candidates signed an agreement to not campaign in MI and FL. This implies that they all agreed with the DNC decision to strip these states of their delegates, but the states held their primaries anyway. Hillary won both. Now she wants them seated, and her campaign has admitted it will fight tooth and nail to get her way.
Joan Walsh, who is a big Hillary fan (even though she denies it, it's obvious, please don't insult our intelligence, Joan) has never taken on this issue. For Hillary supporters, I don't understand how they can defend Hillary's insistence to seat these delegates from a non-election, a bogus election, etc. (whatever you call it). How can we as a party stand for "democracy" when crap like this happens? How can Hillary, as president, if she wins, stand in the White House and denounce other countries' electoral processes when she herself would be illegitimate? I just don't get it. Sign an agreement, and then when the outcome looks favorable, change the rules to please yourself and oh, never admit a mistake. Haven't we had 8 years of crap like this? Playing dirty. Please, a Hillary supporter, explain this to me.
I'm one of the people who preferred Kucinich, as neither Hillary's nor Barack's plan cuts out the evil health merchants who are choking our health care system. However, Hillary has almost no chance of beating McCanine. The simple truth is that the media and most of the big-wig money people are white, heterosexual males, who prefer a black dude over a chick any day. Hillary would get pilloried. I'm with Barack for now, for the moment, even though I've gone back and forth, as I do recognize his many short-comings.
